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You're conflating the government with a private citizen's private enterprise. The U.S. government can't block the sale of a book AFAIK - unless perhaps it's thi
by loceng 4y ago
You're conflating the government with a private citizen's private enterprise. The U.S. government can't block the sale of a book AFAIK - unless perhaps it's things like "how to build a nuclear bomb."
Elon's Twitter is his house - his house, his rules. If someone's going to be racist in his house and he doesn't want racist/immature narratives being propagated - then he has the power to limit that; we don't know what limiting the reach means either, perhaps depending on the severity it means that only your specific followers see it - and that it isn't shown to random people.
- tsimionescu 4y agoFreedom of speech is freedom of speech. If you think that the US government isn't legally allowed to limit speech in a certain way because of the 1st amendment, than any private entity who is limitting speech in that way can't claim they support free speech. Of course, private entities, unlike the government, have every right to limit freedom of speech on their own property. But they can't then claim they are supporters of freedom of speech on their platform.